30 DECEMBER 1922, Page 26

TO TEL YOU THE TRUTH. By Leonard Merrick. (Hodder and

Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—A series of short stories dealing chiefly with life in Paris. These are just suffi- ciently interesting to provide a useful fictional anaesthesia for people who want a book which they can read without the slightest mental exertion.